New High Court challenge against mandatory hotel quarantine

Ms Kelly would have been legally permitted to exit quarantine on Monday, April 12, had she received a negative PCR test that day but hotel staff had failed to test her that day in line with their obligations under the relevant legislation, Mr French said.

A bus outside the Crowne Plaza hotel, Santry, near Dublin Airport, where travellers are staying during a mandatory 12-day quarantine. Picture: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

A woman has taken a High Court action aimed at being permitted to leave mandatory hotel quarantine.

The action, which came before the court on Monday night, is by an Irish woman, Emma Kelly, who has been in quarantine in the Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel in Dublin since she came home from Dubai on April 3. She came home to support her mother after her father, who is scheduled to undergo major cancer surgery shortly, was diagnosed with cancer the court heard.